Pros:
Good DISCatchers that can be moved to multiple locations on just about every hole, and not just an A or B position, but some had up to 4 positions.
Good, large concrete tee pads on every hole, most holes had two pads, offering different looks.
Great tee signs showing the multiple pin positions, with distance and appropriate par.
If that's not enough variety for you, there are open holes, partially open holes, flat wooded holes and mountain side wooded holes.
With that many basket positions, the course could be set up with any number of left, right or straight holes.
Really nice, large multi-use park, something for everyone beyond the Disc Golfer. The ballfields looked to be in good shape as well as the tennis courts bordering #2 and #3.
Cons:
Probably the strangest thing here was the practice basket, in the woods, just off the large parking lot. However, you have to walk across #4 fairway to get to #1 tee. Now 4 is a short enough hole that you can see the tee, but I wonder how often tee shots plinko toward the practice basket.
Kind of a strange transition from #10 to #11, but since I had a guide, and his pup, I didn't have to worry about it.
#12 and #13 both felt like the same hole, tight uphill shots, but there isn't any other way to get to cool #14.
Other Thoughts:
I've read about Jackson Park for a while now, the second highest rated course in the Asheville, NC area. It looks pretty tame from the course map, a few open holes, then some wooded holes and a few partial wooded holes in between. But, just like the woods hiding a good still in the mountains, these woods are hiding some great holes.
SHORT and SWEET - #4 and #5 start out short and flat enough, but enough trees to get you ready.
LONGER and STEEPER - #6 and #7 jump at you with sidehill fairways and greens, longer holes and you need to control your disc landings.
WOODED PAR 4s - #8 plays up to 550' to the long position, with a steep dropoff behind the basket and #15 is over 450' to both, very different positions.
CLASSIC MOUNTAIN HOLES - #9 is your signature valley rim-to-rim mountain shot, I believe my tee shot stuck, but my missed putt was a bit of a rollaway. #10 fairway is on a left to right sidehill, leading to the B position (in play the day I was there), carved into a rock with a 10-15 dropoff if you go long.
THE FINISH - #17 is back in the woods, it has a tight drive than finishes up and to the right. Your round ends with a fairly tight drive that needs to go left, then finish in a clearing near the parking lot to the long position, standard for the day I was there. (A real good finishing position and layout to watch the close of a tournament.)
When you do get a break from the woods, #11 and #14 both have an OB creek bordering the right side and #16, while short, is guarded by large trees and has a park road along the right side.
While the wooded holes will probably be the ones you remember, #1 is a fun downhiller where you have to split two trees, and miss the bandstage. For a wide open hole, #2 has some teeth, you tee back in a tunnel and either go long just past the tennis courts, or (probably just for tournaments) go left over a small pond and near OB.
So that gives you one third open or partially open holes with two thirds in the woods. The string of 5 wooded holes together are payback after the 3 open holes to start and then just when you need a break, #11 comes along with its grass fairway. Yes, a real good job of mixing up the hole types as well as the up and downhill holes.
It looks like there is a pretty active group here, several organized events and my guides seemed to be well known on the course. While some of the elevation on the front 9 may be tough on certain players, this would be a fun home course. Not sure how often they move the pin positions, but that would certainly add to the replayability factor. I always like when I can come to a new course, be very pleasantly surprised by the layout and increase its overall rating with my score. Add to that, I had an enjoyable round with the local player I met and the course mascot.
So happy I arranged to make this my 200th course played. New Quarter in Yorktown was #100, so I'm scheduling the milestones pretty well so far.